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Singapore's A330 MRTT aerial tankers attain full operational capability
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has declared its fleet of six Airbus A330-200 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT) aircraft fully operational at a ceremony...Full story -
Automated advantage: The defence industry and AI
In a 2019 White Paper titled ‘Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Defense and Aerospace Applications’, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions defined machine...Full story -
QinetiQ to expand ETPS helicopter fleet
QinetiQ is to expand the helicopter fleet of the UK Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS) as part of a wider three-year investment in the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s)...Full story -
NAVAIR teams completes PALS certification on Queen Elizabeth
A team from the US Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR’s) Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office (PMA-213) has completed certification of the precision...Full story -
India ring-fences funding for private-sector procurements
The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved a move to ensure that at least 15% of procurement funding is assigned for acquisitions from the country’s private...Full story -
Indonesia engages German, Turkish firms to customise frigate design
Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL has engaged German naval consultancy, MTG Marinetechnik, and Turkish engineering firm FIGES AS, to customise the design of a...Full story -
German parliament approves funding for AEVs, Tornado RWRs, UAVs, flight training and IT
The budget committee of the Bundestag, the German parliament, approved funding for the procurement of armoured engineer vehicles (AEVs), radar warning receivers (RWRs)...Full story -
Naval Group delivers first FREMM air-defence frigate to French Navy
French shipbuilder Naval Group delivered France’s first Aquitaine-class FREMM multimission frigate enhanced with air-defence capabilities on 16 April.Full story -
Japan's Tsuiki Air Base hosts F-2 ‘elephant walk'
A total of 20 Mitsubishi F-2 multirole fighter aircraft assigned to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF’s) 8th Squadron took part in an ‘elephant walk’ at Tsuiki...Full story -
A400M progresses helicopter AAR certification
Airbus Defence and Space (DS) has progressed helicopter air-to-air refuelling (AAR) certification for its A400M tanker-transport aircraft, the company announced on 19...Full story -
MBDA to supply Sea Ceptor weapon system for Canadian CSC frigates
MBDA announced on 19 April it has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin to equip the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN’s) new single class of 15 Canadian Surface...Full story -
France orders H225M Caracal helicopters to support Airbus
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly announced on 15 April an order for eight H225M Caracal helicopters to support France’s aeronautics industry during a visit to...Full story -
Luftwaffe Eurofighters get Meteor BVRAAM
The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) has begun equipping its Eurofighter combat aircraft with the MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), the service...Full story -
DARPA selects research teams for WARP programme
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have officially selected several research teams to lead the agency’s work in developing technologies to expand...Full story -
Update: RotorX demonstrates Palledrone heavy-lift UAV at US Army AEWE
RotorX has developed a fully autonomous heavy-lift unmanned hexacopter called the Palledrone that participated in the last two US Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments...Full story -
North Korea's military capabilities to pose ‘increasing threat' to US and its Asian allies, says ODNI
The US intelligence community has warned that the threat posed by North Korea to the United States, South Korea, and Japan will increase as Pyongyang continues to...Full story -
US Army eyes new, low-cost emitter systems for EMSO training
US Army researchers are delving into the realm of low-cost threat emitters, to assist combat units preparing to conduct operations in highly congested and contested...Full story -
Update: US set to withdraw remaining troops from Afghanistan before 11 September
US President Joe Biden announced on 14 April that he plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan before 11 September, almost 20 years after the...Full story -
China's ‘push for global power' poses greatest security threat to US, says US intelligence community
The US intelligence community has put what it described as China’s ‘push for global power’ at the top of its latest annual report on worldwide threats to the national...Full story -
Prospects for Afghan peace deal in near future ‘remain low', says ODNI
The US intelligence community is not optimistic about the prospects of the Afghan government and the Taliban reaching a peace deal anytime soon to end the decades-long...Full story